The blind men and the elephant: views of scenario-based system design

  • Authors:
  • Kentaro Go;John M. Carroll

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Yamanashi Kofu Japan;The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

  • Venue:
  • interactions
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Six blind men encounter an elephant. Each of them touches a different part of the elephant and expresses what the elephant is. Although they are touching the same elephant, each man's description is completely different from that of the others. We have been using this story as a metaphor for understanding different views of scenario-based system design.